Why you’ll love working here:
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high-performance, people-focused culture
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our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
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learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
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membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
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competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, and newly extended maternity/parental leave top of 26 weeks)
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optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
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yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
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access to an annual wellness reimbursement program for health and wellness-related expenses for permanent and temporary employees
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the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers
Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (“HOOPP”) is one of the top performing and fastest growing pension funds in the world, with over $114 billion in net assets under management. HOOPP invests in all major asset classes, including fixed-income, public equity, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure.
As our fund grows, we are updating our technology to handle higher transaction volumes and more complex investment strategies. The Investment Trading Solutions Portfolio delivers technological solutions that enable our business clients to manage, analyze and grow their business. We innovate to build custom software solutions, automating trading and settlements, so the business can scale.
As a Senior Business Analyst, you would be working with our business partners to understand the problems at hand and propose solutions to help build the software to automate their workflows to help drive value to our teams.
This portfolio is broad in scope which supports the following areas of investment trading including:
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Futures, FX, Bond, Equity, and Swaps trading
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Collateral Management and Trading
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Payments and settlement tracking and processing
What you will do:
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Partner with our business teams in the back, mid, and front office to understand their needs, create robust solutions, and provide updates on progress.
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Build custom software that enables the growth of our business in ways no other pension plan can compete.
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Integrate across multiple investment systems both internally and externally using custom or industry protocols e.g. FIX.
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Manage vendor relationships for new builds, enhancements, and support of existing workflows
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Create designs and processes to ensure operations of a critical business.
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Provide support for our business partners when anomalies occur, or questions need to be answered through investigation of technical problems.
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Collaborate with a team that embodies the agile mindset, involving high amounts learning and flexibility to achieve high performing results.
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Learn how we record transactions in our book of record and understand how to accurately confirm the state of the data through the source system and data warehouse
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Actively participate and contribute to Agile/ Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives.
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Support the team in developing and realizing the Product vision (develop roadmaps, manage scope, minimum viable products etc.)
What you will bring:
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5+ years Capital Markets domain knowledge in at least one of the following areas:
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Futures, Bond, Equity, FX, or Derivatives trading and post trade
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Collateral Trading or Collateral Management
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Payment or Settlement tracking and processing
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Understanding of IT principles such as databases, functions, UI, business rules, and software systems.
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Possess a Quality Assurance mindset and capable of testing software to find issues and confirm functionality.
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Highly organized, analytical, strategic, and structured with excellent communication (written & verbal) and problem-solving skills.
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Proven ability to interact with all levels of the organization confidently and effectively and to build strong working relationships in a team-oriented, collaborate environment while producing solutions.
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Experience working with developers to produce solutions.
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Experience integrating with vendor and external systems.
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Knowledge of SimCorp Dimensions (SCD), SAP HANA, Snowflake is an asset.
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CFA, CSA, FRM or other financial designation is an asset.
HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
1 York Street, Suite 1900, , Toronto, ON , Canada, M5J 0B6,
